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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => Interior & Equipment => Topic started by: usar17 on May 16, 2012, 06:31:54 am
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So my truck doesn't have a fancy foam headliner, I'm ok with that I have a quiet interior. I would like to mount cab clearance lights and a set off air horns of the roof. Is there a way to remove the inner roof panel for ease of wiring and mounting? Or is it welded together?
There are plugs on my roof for where the lights should be. But for the air horns I'd need access to bolt them down.
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If there is already plugs where the lights go, drill more holes for the air horn and use the same plugs like your other ones. yes the inner roof is welded in.
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You could use AVKs. do a google search for them. They are a nutsert that you can install from the outside to give you threads to bolt into. We use them all over the place on our trucks at work. You need to be sure you have enough depth to install them as they are longer when uninstalled, but pull up shorter when you install them. I would recommend closed-end AVKs to ensure you don't have any water leaks.
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I actually just got done doing this to my truck. I went and bought an aftermarket kit for a late 90s dodge ram with low profile smoked cab lights. I promise you its worth the. Fight, but it can be stressful. The inner roof panel does not come out, you have to do it blind. I actually laid all my lights out first, marked where i wanted them all, then marked where the holes are for the screws to hold them down. Each light contains 3 holes (1 big for wiring, and 2 small for screws).
If you have ever played hide and go seek in the dark, its kind of like that, (you are permanently it and the wires always are hiding) easiest way is to take out your visors, then run long flexible wire from passenger to driver side, feed wiring in through the driver hole visor. Attach last light to your wire and as you pull it through start fishing each light for each hole, but careful not to pull wrong one through wrong hole. Its easiest to start at an end.
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well it looks like i had lights at one time or the option for them. There are like round metal caps where they would be. And it's rusting around them, hence i figured aftermarket patch. Was gonna try and pop them out.
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Is the wiring still inside the roof? That would be. Piece of cake job if it was, just throw on some new lights.